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View Poll Results: Do you pop your knucles before playing bass? | |
Yes I Do.
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10-29-2009, 01:15 PM
| | |  Do You Pop Your Knuckles?
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Do you pop your knuckles before you play bass?
Some people say it's bad, some say it doesn't matter.
Me, I pop 'em before I play, because it makes me feel good. I feel more loose.
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10-29-2009, 01:16 PM
|  | no really, smokemeth&hailsatan | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pueblo, CO | | | All the time. Helps keep the hair off of them. |
10-29-2009, 01:16 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Hooksett, NH | | Quote:
Originally Posted by southernrocker  Do you pop your knuckles before you play bass?
Some people say it's bad, some say it doesn't matter.
Me, I pop 'em before I play, because it makes me feel good. I feel more loose.
Do you pop yours? | Yes. Quite frequently. Bad habit, but I really don't care. I could think of many worse habits.
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10-29-2009, 01:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Georgia | | | I've always popped my knuckles. I've never had a problem.
I'm bad about popping my knuckles while I play. I have no idea what gives me the desire, or how I do so without losing time.
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10-29-2009, 01:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: 60° 36' 0 N 21° 25' 60 E | | | i never do so it makes me feel bad!
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10-29-2009, 01:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: The Rockies (close to Denver) | | Quote:
Originally Posted by southernrocker Do you pop your knuckles... | ...constantly? Yes. |
10-29-2009, 02:03 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Portland | | | Pop my ears more than I pop my knuckles.
From my understanding, excessive popping of knuckles could potentially lead to problems, but most people are fine.
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10-29-2009, 04:16 PM
| | | | Most definitely I do. I've talked to 2 physicians that both say that popping your knuckles is actually good for you, and reduces the chance of arthritis. |
10-29-2009, 07:11 PM
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Originally Posted by MooseLumps Pop my ears more than I pop my knuckles.
From my understanding, excessive popping of knuckles could potentially lead to problems, but most people are fine. | I've heard it both ways. It seems that the doctors change thier minds every year. |
10-29-2009, 11:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: cincinnati | | i have since i was 6. at some point i quit for a few weeks and my hands got so stiff i could hardly play. could have been in my head, but i very much prefer loosening them up at least once a day. every joint in every finger.
as a result, ive got the biggest knuckles on earth
its either genetics or this is direct result of ~15 years of knuckle cracking 
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10-30-2009, 06:13 AM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | I do occasionally, but not everytime I'm going to play.
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10-30-2009, 06:19 AM
|  | I fling carrots | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Make a left at the Taco Bell | | | I always did before a gig, along with various other stretching and limbering exercises of the fingers. I've never had a problem.
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10-30-2009, 09:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Georgetown, Kentucky | | | I crack whenever something feels stiff, not just my knuckles, but my toes, knees, back, neck, sternum... in the morning my bedroom sounds like a chiropractor's office!
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10-30-2009, 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Oric I crack whenever something feels stiff, not just my knuckles, but my toes, knees, back, neck, sternum... in the morning my bedroom sounds like a chiropractor's office! | Same here. My back and neck cracks like a bag of heated popcorns. And my knuckles, yes I pop em', constantly and especially before playing. Haven't had any problems, yet.  |
10-31-2009, 10:26 AM
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Originally Posted by sonic assassin i have since i was 6. at some point i quit for a few weeks and my hands got so stiff i could hardly play. could have been in my head, but i very much prefer loosening them up at least once a day. every joint in every finger.
as a result, ive got the biggest knuckles on earth
its either genetics or this is direct result of ~15 years of knuckle cracking | For the rest of us, lets hope that's genetic! |
10-31-2009, 12:43 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Monroe, LA | | How many have popped them since they opened this thread?  |
10-31-2009, 01:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Leuven, Belgium | | | check. |
10-31-2009, 04:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Estonia | | | I do it cause it's a habit and also because they crack due to the arm and tendon exercises I do before picking up my bass.
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10-31-2009, 09:06 PM
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